East High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Vo LOUIS G. COOK BIG BROTHER TO US ALL. WE DEDICATE THIS BOOK.

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Responsibility' THERE was once a wise old educator. In this wise old educator’s school, they had “auditorium” twice a week before the day’s work began. At 9 o’clock sharp on Tuesdays and Fridays, when the whole school was assembled in the great hall of the building, the wise old educator mounted the rostrum, and with upraised hand and commanding voice, demanded of his school, “What is the word?” As one voice came the answer, “Responsibility!” “What did you say?” “Responsibility!” “Louder!” “RESPONSIBILITY!” This time uttered with the entire force of a thousand voices. Satisfied, the old educator lowered his hand, the wave of sound subsided, the school quieted down, and the “morning exercises” proceeded. What did the little ceremony mean? Far more than I, or any of the other pupils in that school, or even the wise old educator could tell. That ceremony was making character; that word, so vehemently repeated, was becoming ingrained in the very souls of the children of the school. That wise old educator loved his children and, out of his great love, through example and through precept, he was teaching them the best life motto he knew. If 1 could give a school a gift, since the beloved educator is gone and I cannot give him to a school, 1 would give the school his motto: “Responsibility.” That watch-word, wrought out in the daily life of a school, means the three essentials of a successful school: scholarship, character, and patriotism. East’s Greatest Need WE have spent four successful years at East High School. We have had the advantage of its splendid teaching force and its unusually capable principal. We have been inspired by the clean, wholesome atmosphere which permeates the whole school, but we realize that there is one great lack in East High School. That lack is a well-equipped gymnasium. Think what a good gymnasium would mean to East High! It would increase school spirit by causing more boys to show their athletic prowess, and by al- Sezrn